February 10, 2017

Wildlife Governance Principles

  • Strategic and adaptive thinking
  • Evidence-based and broadly informed decision-making
  • Transparency and accountability for decisions and actions
  • Inclusive and diverse participation in decision-making
  • Capacity to deliver conservation

(Chris Smith, Wildlife Management Institute)

Harvard Business Review 2012

Reporting

Reporting

Ecology 1939
Ecology 2014

Modernizing Workflow

The old way…

Modernizing Workflow

The old way…
The modern way…

Modernizing Workflow

The old way…
The modern way…

Smoothing the Workflow

  • Where does it break?

Common Data Pitfalls

  • Labels contain information
    • File names
    • Field names

Common Data Pitfalls

  • Mixing rows and columns
    • Multiple headers

Common Data Pitfalls

  • Color codes

Common Data Pitfalls

  • Mixing raw data and summaries
    • Tables within sheets

Data Solutions

  • Long data
    • Disk space is cheap

Data Solutions

  • Think outside the rectangle
    • list-columns
    • NoSQL
    • XML

Data Solutions

  • Data manipulations should be code driven
    • Maintain a base copy
    • All manipulations run off the base
    • Manipulations are temporary

Code Integrity

  • Version Control
    • GitHub
  • Comments
  • Naming conventions

PopR

PopR

  • Adaptive
  • Evidence-based
  • Transparent
  • Inclusive
  • Supports delivery

Data Entry

Data Visualization

Data Integrity

Analysis

Hypothesis Driven Modeling

Flexible Reporting

Information Sharing

Code Management

How does it all work?

Questions?